There is a place for pointing out system biases, because by nature they are difficult to perceive, except for the people who are actively and in bad faith looking for them. But the basic fact about systemic biases is that they are statistical and never a reflection on an individual.
But it is true that Western societies have passed the point where a person from an identifiable group achieving something is any kind of achievement for that individual. The "first black female Puerto Rican pole vault champion" is not overcoming unique challenges now that they would have had to in the past.
We can celebrate, not that we have reached a point of equality, but that we have long since reached that point without noticing.
It was morally repugnant to put women in high-risk situations because for thousands of years women were considered too valuable because of their child-rearing roles. Men, in contrast, were expendable.
It's especially perverse since women were not usually treated as valued members of society.
No-one would have been consciously thinking that way in the 1960s, but it was, and to a degree still is, deeply ingrained in the culture.
Undoubtedly more complex that a regular cargo vessel, but a ship designed to house a few thousand military personnel will be significantly more complex, much less one where those people are doing their jobs.
Heavier than air flight with a cast-iron, steam-powered aeroplane flying in a fluid medium whose actual viscosity is different by an order of magnitude than the true viscosity of air.
I'm pretty sure that one's true, though irrelevant today.
We're using FrAgile and Waterfall and our project has had to be halted for the second time in two years.
Agile (the way we're doing it, probably the wrong way) doesn't scale. If the project is 100 people, half of whom have never met the other half, then a daily meeting is impossible and attempts just degenerate into people checking off boxes but mainly consuming enormous amounts of time without actually communicating anything of value.
On the other hand, my personal suspicion is that "Agile" was really the vendor saying they could adapt to very fluid and evolving requirements when in reality they never understood the requirements in the first place and had no intention of ever fulfilling them. Maybe 'real' Agile would work better.
I don't think any proper scientists has thought in terms of a hierarchy of intelligence since we discovered that quantifying intelligence was harder than we thought (about a century ago).
But I could certainly see journalists thinking in those terms.
selecting the best gametes from the available pool
...might at least make sense of some sorts if we knew which ones were the 'best'.
We can't (yet) know which combinations of what are superficially liabilities might actually result in creativity, or enhance perception, or a particular disease resistance, etc.
Okay, I've always assumed that the stereotypes about the honest of car dealers were true, but I never suspected that they were this much of an entrenched monied special interest group.
Well if people are getting this rich off of essentially retail, then there are bigger things wrong with this picture than we thought.
the poor will still be paying a much larger percentage of their income in taxes.
Why does that matter?
Think carefully about it. Unless you believe there should be consumption taxes or income taxes but not both, then it doesn't make sense to complain that economic situations are different across different income brackets. (Duh, that's what the words 'rich' and 'poor' mean.)
Depends on your definition of "look after". Do you mean the legally required minimal necessities of life, or raising them to be independent, well-adjusted, and productive members of society?
The goal presumably is to discourage women from making the 'wrong' career decision by creating the illusion that they can just postpone child-bearing. Some will, and some will fall into the trap and never escape their career.
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There is a place for pointing out system biases, because by nature they are difficult to perceive, except for the people who are actively and in bad faith looking for them. But the basic fact about systemic biases is that they are statistical and never a reflection on an individual.
But it is true that Western societies have passed the point where a person from an identifiable group achieving something is any kind of achievement for that individual. The "first black female Puerto Rican pole vault champion" is not overcoming unique challenges now that they would have had to in the past.
We can celebrate, not that we have reached a point of equality, but that we have long since reached that point without noticing.
Yes and no.
It was morally repugnant to put women in high-risk situations because for thousands of years women were considered too valuable because of their child-rearing roles. Men, in contrast, were expendable.
It's especially perverse since women were not usually treated as valued members of society.
No-one would have been consciously thinking that way in the 1960s, but it was, and to a degree still is, deeply ingrained in the culture.
Undoubtedly more complex that a regular cargo vessel, but a ship designed to house a few thousand military personnel will be significantly more complex, much less one where those people are doing their jobs.
Which we just so happen to use for drinking cups
It's sad that the state of consumer protection is such that I don't find that reassuring.
The sun is a hydrogen bomb.
I'm not convinced that Coldfusion was real either.
Heavier than air flight with a cast-iron, steam-powered aeroplane flying in a fluid medium whose actual viscosity is different by an order of magnitude than the true viscosity of air.
I'm pretty sure that one's true, though irrelevant today.
We're using FrAgile and Waterfall and our project has had to be halted for the second time in two years.
Agile (the way we're doing it, probably the wrong way) doesn't scale. If the project is 100 people, half of whom have never met the other half, then a daily meeting is impossible and attempts just degenerate into people checking off boxes but mainly consuming enormous amounts of time without actually communicating anything of value.
On the other hand, my personal suspicion is that "Agile" was really the vendor saying they could adapt to very fluid and evolving requirements when in reality they never understood the requirements in the first place and had no intention of ever fulfilling them. Maybe 'real' Agile would work better.
We're so used to breakthroughs only coming from the extraordinary quantum optics lab.
Unless you have a few trillion dollar coins stashed away somewhere that'll fund thousands upon thousands of chemical rockets
Maybe they're looking for a cover story for "thousands upon thousands of chemical rockets" that they're planning to build anyway.
I don't think any proper scientists has thought in terms of a hierarchy of intelligence since we discovered that quantifying intelligence was harder than we thought (about a century ago).
But I could certainly see journalists thinking in those terms.
Also the fossil record shows elapsed time but not number of generations.
selecting the best gametes from the available pool
...might at least make sense of some sorts if we knew which ones were the 'best'.
We can't (yet) know which combinations of what are superficially liabilities might actually result in creativity, or enhance perception, or a particular disease resistance, etc.
Well, they are checking for intelligence....
Okay, I've always assumed that the stereotypes about the honest of car dealers were true, but I never suspected that they were this much of an entrenched monied special interest group.
Well if people are getting this rich off of essentially retail, then there are bigger things wrong with this picture than we thought.
Better known as 'inflation'.
the poor will still be paying a much larger percentage of their income in taxes.
Why does that matter?
Think carefully about it. Unless you believe there should be consumption taxes or income taxes but not both, then it doesn't make sense to complain that economic situations are different across different income brackets. (Duh, that's what the words 'rich' and 'poor' mean.)
scare tactics, I don't see our governments try the same tactics
Are you kidding? The entire Department of Homeland Security is about scare tactics.
You mean +5 Informative, right?
Depends on your definition of "look after". Do you mean the legally required minimal necessities of life, or raising them to be independent, well-adjusted, and productive members of society?
The goal presumably is to discourage women from making the 'wrong' career decision by creating the illusion that they can just postpone child-bearing. Some will, and some will fall into the trap and never escape their career.
structural engineering, gastrointestinal surgery, quantum mechanics, income tax law, synthesizing pharmaceuticals, etc...
Some are calling the phenomenon "being kids".
So much for reintroducing child labour.
If every country did that the US would be the first to be wiped out.
I think you mean a kilometre.
And when they want something that sounds exotic, it will be Swahili, Polynesian, Japanese, etc.